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     • The Ice Palace is written in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the most memorable achievements of modern literature.
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   Is the Ice Palace written in prose?

   • The Ice Palace is written in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the most memorable achievements of modern literature. 176 pages, Paperback First published January 1, 1963 Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose.

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   Who wrote the Ice Palace?

   • First published in 1963 and translated into English in 1966, The Ice Palace was written by Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970), a poet and novelist widely regarded as one of Norway’s greatest writers of the 20th century. (According to the author biography in my edition, he wrote more than 25 novels and was nominated for the Nobel Prize 30 times!)

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   Is the Ice Palace a good read?

   • And if you’re the type of reader who wants everything neatly tied up at the end, The Ice Palace may prove a frustrating read. However, as a story about grief, loss and loneliness, The Ice Palace is a haunting tale about the frozen worlds of our own making.

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   What is the Ice Palace based on?

   • A haunting, beautiful, atmospheric and poetic novella set in the harsh Norwegian winter. Siss and Unn are two very different 11 year old girls who are just embarking on a tentative friendship when tragedy strikes. The ice palace of the title is the name they give to the ice sculptures formed by a freezing waterfall.

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   The Ice Palace is written in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the most memorable achievements of modern literature. Genres Classics Fiction Literary Fiction Scandinavian Literature Novels Modern Classics 20th Century. ...more. 176 pages, Paperback.

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   Apr 10, 2019 · The prose style is elegant and sparse, if slightly staid, and the descriptions — of the winter-rimed landscape, the frozen lake and the ice palace itself — are beautiful and evocative, conjuring up a magical winter wonderland.

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   ‘The Ice Palace’ is a novel by Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas. The story is set in a small village in Norway and revolves around the friendship of two young girls, Siss and Unn. The novel explores themes of loneliness, loss, and the search for identity.

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   Jun 27, 2018 · What does Unn actually experience in the Ice Palace? Vesaas has written a brilliant novel in a prose that is both lyrical and sparse. The delicately rendered young protagonists and the natural setting will haunt the reader long after the novel is put down.

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   Siss's struggle with her fidelity to the memory of a friend, the strange frozen world of the waterfall, and the description of Unn's fatal exploration of the ice palace are described in prose of...

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   The Ice Palace is written in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the most memorable achievements of modern literature. I was so excited to read this and bummed that it didn’t work out for me.

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   The Ice Palace (Nynorsk: Is-slottet) is a novel by the Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas, first published in 1963. An English translation was published by Peter Owen Publishers, London. It and was scheduled for reissue with them in Christmas of 2017 was part of their Cased Classics series.